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Pokémon Mafia |OT| Gotta Catch Em Scum!
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Blargonaut
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Answer the question, Gorlak
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ANSWER ME
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Royal_Flush
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Oh, a game with people actually posting. Haven't been in one of these for some time.
At least there is something happening other than forced questionnaires in the first 24h so that's a good sign, I guess?
*sigh*
wrong. Town has fallen into this trap so many times. Gods, Danny Phantom. And the last time i remember him being really aggressive was in Princess where he was Scum.
Yeah that happens. Judging from my previous games I'll be a solid Null-Read for the first few phases...
At least there is something happening other than forced questionnaires in the first 24h so that's a good sign, I guess?
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*sigh*
wrong. Town has fallen into this trap so many times. Gods, Danny Phantom. And the last time i remember him being really aggressive was in Princess where he was Scum.
I find neither of those to be odd. Ty-Soph looks like a friendly banter, Ty-Darryl like usual X-Darryl stuff.
I don't think this speculation leads to anything worthwhile with the amount of info we have. I also think it might help Scum more than Town to figure this out as early as possible.
Interesting or "easy target"-scummy?
I sat at my desk laughing like an idiot... Thanks Ourobororolol
I just want to say this is deeply disturbing.
Royal_Flush
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Yeah, that's what you get for not answering your quotes in order... Let's try this again:
The flavor states that Team Rocket kills the Pokemon before they sell them. The further instructions bit also is an argument against the trainers simply being Scum.
The flavor states that Team Rocket kills the Pokemon before they sell them. The further instructions bit also is an argument against the trainers simply being Scum.
This day seems like a pretty typical day 1. Lots of fluff and jokes and people monkeying around, Darryl pressuring people, Blarg being Blarg and not very useful. There were some points of interest, mainly the standard lynch/no-lynch discussion and the Darryl-sophia-ty4on interactions. I can see Darryl's argument how defending day 1 lynch could be an easy way for scum to appear active and pro town (since no-lynch is often seen as anti-town). On the other hand, we don't have much to discuss yet so I wouldn't fault Ty4on for giving his opinion about it. His reaction to Darryl his post was a bit defensive though. I also thought him calling out Sophia's vote on Nin (which came over to me as not a very serious one and more meant to create some activity) which kickstarted the sophia-ty4on interactions was not particularly strong.
The fact that it is often up in the air who gets lynched until the last few moments on day 1 is one of the things I find valuable about day 1. Since votes tend to suddenly shift at the final hours of day 1, scum can't just sit back and hide in the background. They need to be there ready to quickly jump in if one of their members suddenly becomes a lynch candidate.That could give us some valuable behavior information.
The fact that it is often up in the air who gets lynched until the last few moments on day 1 is one of the things I find valuable about day 1. Since votes tend to suddenly shift at the final hours of day 1, scum can't just sit back and hide in the background. They need to be there ready to quickly jump in if one of their members suddenly becomes a lynch candidate.That could give us some valuable behavior information.
Currently catching up.
I do agree with you that it's bold though, that's why I said it was too obvious. I didn't read Disney Princess, but from skimming scum chat it seemed like scum!Darryl wasn't afraid of sticking out.
I'm just having a harder time seeing Darryl's post coming from from a town. What struck me about the post from Darryl is how weak his argument was and what a weird thing to focus on it was in context. Heck, as he pointed out later:
He's throwing shade at fluff posts, but never commented on the fluff posts.
Commenting more on it:
The third paragraph mentions me, but really nothing in particular about my post. Also the weird "discussion for discussions sake" comment. I didn't try to start a discussion. I didn't give Nin a question to answer to and I didn't reply to his replies either.
I first linked Darryl to Sophia because I struggled to see why a townie would post that, but this post fueled my tunnel.
Look back at the context. Darryl makes his post and Hyper then makes two posts where he's completely oblivious to what's going on.
I do agree with you that it's bold though, that's why I said it was too obvious. I didn't read Disney Princess, but from skimming scum chat it seemed like scum!Darryl wasn't afraid of sticking out.
I'm just having a harder time seeing Darryl's post coming from from a town. What struck me about the post from Darryl is how weak his argument was and what a weird thing to focus on it was in context. Heck, as he pointed out later:
Emphasise mine.
He's throwing shade at fluff posts, but never commented on the fluff posts.
Commenting more on it:
Reading his post again the first two paragraphs are generalized. That's why I commented on it justifying its position. I don't see the reasons he's pointing out here.
The third paragraph mentions me, but really nothing in particular about my post. Also the weird "discussion for discussions sake" comment. I didn't try to start a discussion. I didn't give Nin a question to answer to and I didn't reply to his replies either.
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now then
What's on the docket
who should I tunnel
What's on the docket
who should I tunnel
Or Roy
Dusk Soldier
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Honestly not sure what to think of this game so far.
We need to get some legitimate reads going so I would like everyone to post a picture of their favourite pokemon.
We need to get some legitimate reads going so I would like everyone to post a picture of their favourite pokemon.
On one hand, I'm sad, I was really hoping to play with Kawl.
On the other hand, HI SPLINTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello Sophia. do you like Daryll ?
It's just that it died down quickly and seemed to be mostly going through the motions. I get that it was the start of the game, but I wanted to make a point that it seemed like a less significant convo than Darryl and Ty's.
You seem to think usual Darryl isn't something to be concerned about.
Vote: Sophia
You seem to be around. What do you think of those "grouping" you with Ty and (less so) with Darryl?
Also, fave pokemon is Arcanine. Everyone around me has one on Pokemon Go and I'm still stuck with a couple Growlithes I've hatched from eggs :<
I admit after Bachelor Party I'm trying to keep a closer eye on you so that you're not a null-read.
Thank you Royal, but I'm well aware of how Darryl acted in those two games. I did play in both of those, after all. Maybe instead of jumping to quick criticisms, consider the possibility that I took that into consideration?
He's a fun player to play against. I'm not sure how to feel about him in this game right now tho.
You can tunnel me any day Blargonaut-senpai~!
Honestly? It looks like an attempt by some people to make a connection where there is none. Darryl hasn't even said that much outside of his vote and reasoning on Ty4on, but I'm not sure what to make of it. It was pointed out by Gorlak that Darryl's argument against Ty4on could have been used against me too. I could understand if Darryl was just voting for the scummier of us two, but he really didn't mention anything about me at all (yet...)
I think with 22 players you can call them by name. I mean if you think they are a thread to you , call them out.
Seeing as I was responding to Fireblend there, who was one of those people, I kind of sort of am.
Actually, I don't know what Scum!Fireblend looks like, so I guess I should pay close attention.
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I don't need to comment on the fluff posts. People are getting into the spirit and that's fine for me. I'm not going to pretend that the fluff matters too much right now. It was a few hours into day 1 and there's not a lot to talk about. But I brought the first argument of the thread, and you obviously realize that I'm making an argument (hence the extreme defensiveness), and you approach it by trying to reduce it to fluff.
I don't need to comment on the fluff posters here. This is ridiculous for multiple reasons. Just about every player in the thread is doing it, that's like 20 people, and there's certainly not a scum majority there. It's a bad lead imo and I'm not buying into there being any merit there. Your counter-argument towards me, though, uses alleged fluff posting as it's foundation. You are the one that needs to look at the alternatives, show consistency, and you need to point out exactly what it is that makes my post stands high and mighty over all the other 20 fluff posters. Not me. If you're going to use fluff posting as your filtering mechanism for finding scum, you've certainly chosen one of the worst possible examples of it in this thread and I want to know why. To me, it's an obvious sign that you're making an argument up as you go.
Don't waste the reader's time and pretend like you weren't participating in a discussion by posting a comment in this thread, either. We are all in a collective discussion to try to find mafia and you were participating in a discussion by expressing opinions on a specific thread within the collective discussion. You're trying to be wastefully semantic and you're wrong on multiple levels - the deep and meaningful ones.
Sophia is scum. Her early impression of Darryl was unconvincing and she had a way-too-long argument with nin about whatever.
This was already helpfully pointed out by Darryl, but for some reason he highlighted Ty4on over Sophia. I have a couple of ideas as to why he did this but I'll wait for him to elaborate before I go into them.
Sophia also had that "Darryl isn't being Darryl" enough which - as pointed out by I think Flush - is nonsense. Darryl has been precisely as Darryl as I'd expect up to now, and while I wouldn't go so far as to town-read him I don't think he's done anything scummy or even un-Darryl yet, so I find Sophia's comment lazy. Either generating fake friction with a scum mate or trying to generate a little friction with town-Darryl (that being a reasonably likely way to keep him off your back).
Ty4on himself, already somehow linked with this pair, seems fine to me. Light town read, not much to add at the moment despite his "connection" to the above.
A few people have tried linking these 3 already. I'm not sure where it started, but it continued through a few different posters. The whole conversation looked most like lazy townies going through the motions.
What else
nin being nin, null read
Salva being Salva, slight town read
Hyperactivity being Hyperactivity, null but I'll gladly policy lynch if he keeps up the "tired posting" and "deepest lore" shtick.
Christina Mackenzie looks scummy to me, although slightly more confrontational than last game. Light scum read.
Royal Flush gave me the strongest {{ VIBES }} on my first read through the thread. Scum.
That leaves [everyone else] as null o/
Oh I think Verelios suggested we RNG the first lynch? That's a bad enough idea that I can attribute any alignment to it.
This was already helpfully pointed out by Darryl, but for some reason he highlighted Ty4on over Sophia. I have a couple of ideas as to why he did this but I'll wait for him to elaborate before I go into them.
Sophia also had that "Darryl isn't being Darryl" enough which - as pointed out by I think Flush - is nonsense. Darryl has been precisely as Darryl as I'd expect up to now, and while I wouldn't go so far as to town-read him I don't think he's done anything scummy or even un-Darryl yet, so I find Sophia's comment lazy. Either generating fake friction with a scum mate or trying to generate a little friction with town-Darryl (that being a reasonably likely way to keep him off your back).
Ty4on himself, already somehow linked with this pair, seems fine to me. Light town read, not much to add at the moment despite his "connection" to the above.
A few people have tried linking these 3 already. I'm not sure where it started, but it continued through a few different posters. The whole conversation looked most like lazy townies going through the motions.
What else
nin being nin, null read
Salva being Salva, slight town read
Hyperactivity being Hyperactivity, null but I'll gladly policy lynch if he keeps up the "tired posting" and "deepest lore" shtick.
Christina Mackenzie looks scummy to me, although slightly more confrontational than last game. Light scum read.
Royal Flush gave me the strongest {{ VIBES }} on my first read through the thread. Scum.
That leaves [everyone else] as null o/
Oh I think Verelios suggested we RNG the first lynch? That's a bad enough idea that I can attribute any alignment to it.
This looks...
*Looks through Mafia dictionary*
Agenday.
Anyhow, what do you think of Sophia?
Blargonaut
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It's just agenda conjugated (poorly) with a -y ending.